Abraham Foxman Quotes
What have we achieved? ... In his world, in his culture, this is a major step. From our perspective it isn't.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Actors make less than you think.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
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Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.
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What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
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Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.
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There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
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What have we achieved? ... In his world, in his culture, this is a major step. From our perspective it isn't.
